Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970. According to Rolling Stone, police said at the time that it was a drug overdose and that he suffocated on his own vomit.

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American blues-rock singer Janis Joplin died on October 4, 1970. She was found in her hotel room, dead of a heroin overdose.

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Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors,was found dead in his Paris apartment bathtub on July 3, 1971. French officials ruled his death was heart failure and did not perform an autopsy, fueling controversial theories around his death.

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Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (center) was a member of the American psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead. He died on March 8, 1973 of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

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Jean Michel Basquiat was an American artist heavily involved with the post-punk art movement and a close collaborator of Andy Warhol. He died on August 12, 1988, following a heroin overdose at his art studio on Great Jones Street, New York.

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Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's lead singer and founder, was found dead on April 5, 1994. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.